Was Stephen King’s X departure cowardly?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“EverYoNe iS gOiNg To BlUeSKy!!” Just like threads, right. How’s that going? Yeah local services like weather, traffic - they are white supremacist incels…… what a bunch of whiny crybaby cowards

But people really have gone to Bluesky. I was surprised. Almost everyone I followed on Twitter is there, and people are putting in the work to help people reconstitute their follow lists. It’s great and not full of trash. More importantly, Stephen King is a legend, and I’m 87 percent certain he has actually time travelled. Anyone who rants against King has lost their way.

The funny thing is Jack Dorsey, who created twitter and helped create Bluesky after musk bought twitter left the Bluesky board and told people they should use twitter.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/07/jack-dorsey-quits-bluesky-board-urges-users-stay-elon-musk-x-twitter: “Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk’s X”

That being said, I think social media (all of it) is a huge net negative for society.

Is Blue sky really funded by Steve Bannon and early bad?
https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/113472115447080382

I am not surprised at all.

I tolerate instagram bc my trainer does her advertisement there and I want to support her. But Facebook x blue sky has no place on my phone!! Just apps full of idiots.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I had to Google Stephen King to understand this thread.

So he’s a writer and wrote a lot of horror genre fiction in the 1900’s? He pretty old. I’ve never read anything he wrote, none of it sounds very interesting to me.

Why should I care about this?

So you’ve basically announced you’re an idiot.

He’s a weird old man who wrote a bunch of weird books. It’s not the least little bit relevant to me.


Put the large print book down and outside, grams. Touch grass.

You had to google Stephen King and you are telling people to touch grass?

Omg. How do people exist in this world?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had to Google Stephen King to understand this thread.

So he’s a writer and wrote a lot of horror genre fiction in the 1900’s? He pretty old. I’ve never read anything he wrote, none of it sounds very interesting to me.

Why should I care about this?

If you had to Google Stephen King, all I can offer you are thoughts and prayers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had to Google Stephen King to understand this thread.

So he’s a writer and wrote a lot of horror genre fiction in the 1900’s? He pretty old. I’ve never read anything he wrote, none of it sounds very interesting to me.

Why should I care about this?

Why did you even click on this thread?

He’s still writing books. Just fyi.

[Anonymous]

I think I’m leaving X too. It was interesting to watch how conspiracy theories are born, but it’s next to impossible to find real information there. I’m an avid fact checker, and it became exhausting.

[Anonymous]

Social media is terrible. Everyone should leave. I haven’t been here since the election and am going off it again. I have a hard time quitting you, DCUM, but I’m trying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“EverYoNe iS gOiNg To BlUeSKy!!” Just like threads, right. How’s that going? Yeah local services like weather, traffic - they are white supremacist incels…… what a bunch of whiny crybaby cowards

But people really have gone to Bluesky. I was surprised. Almost everyone I followed on Twitter is there, and people are putting in the work to help people reconstitute their follow lists. It’s great and not full of trash. More importantly, Stephen King is a legend, and I’m 87 percent certain he has actually time travelled. Anyone who rants against King has lost their way.

Blue sky is too much of an echo chamber. The censorship is off the hook.

[Anonymous]

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The Guardian newspapers just departed X. They are the exact opposite of cowardly in their reporting worldwide. They decided they no longer want or need any association with that platform as a way to get out word about their stories. Good for them.

Stephen King was probably like other celebrities who have used Twitter/X for years: Had a large following there, established long before Musk too over, and the followers are used to the platform's look and feel. It's harder to leave X when you've built a large following there pre-Musk, I think, and have a large trove of posts and conversations archived there. I knew people for whom it was their only social media use, and who got a lot of support and help when they were on Twitter. But anyone who leaves X is doing the right thing, though it's got to be a bit tough to leave your whole archive of threads behind. I have to figure that X deletes people's whole histories at some point if not right away, thse days.

The Guardian is profoundly cowardly and overtly left-wing in its coverage.

The Guardian is the only paper around with any balls. It only has a fraction of the balls it used to have, but it still has some left.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“EverYoNe iS gOiNg To BlUeSKy!!” Just like threads, right. How’s that going? Yeah local services like weather, traffic - they are white supremacist incels…… what a bunch of whiny crybaby cowards

But people really have gone to Bluesky. I was surprised. Almost everyone I followed on Twitter is there, and people are putting in the work to help people reconstitute their follow lists. It’s great and not full of trash. More importantly, Stephen King is a legend, and I’m 87 percent certain he has actually time travelled. Anyone who rants against King has lost their way.

Blue sky is too much of an echo chamber. The censorship is off the hook.

Censorship is the only way to ensure that people hear the truth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fact that King’s departure from X led someone to ask the internet whether that departure made King a coward is concrete evidence of the decline of civilization.

It’s evidence that King is a sheep.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that King’s departure from X led someone to ask the internet whether that departure made King a coward is concrete evidence of the decline of civilization.

It’s evidence that King is a sheep.

Or perhaps he’s the shepherd?

[Anonymous]

-X is toxic
-Threads is full of complaints and woe is me stories
-BlueSky is a "safe space" where all are loved and everything is adorable puppies & rainbows & unicorns & people lamenting on how great it is to be somewhere new

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:-X is toxic
-Threads is full of complaints and woe is me stories
-BlueSky is a "safe space" where all are loved and everything is adorable puppies & rainbows & unicorns & people lamenting on how great it is to be somewhere new

Lament does not mean what you think it means.